• CIRCE

    "A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times).In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power--the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into mo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0316556343
    • ASIN: 0316556343
    • ISBN: 0316556343
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • Ikaria: Lessons on Food, Life, and Longevity from the Greek Island Where People Forget to Die

    Part cookbook, part travelogue, Ikaria is an introduction to the food-as-life philosophy of the Greek island "blue zone" and a culinary journey through luscious recipes, gorgeous photography, and captivating stories from locals. The remote and lush island of Ikaria in the northeastern Aegean is home to one of the longest-living populations on the planet, making it a "blue zone." Much of this has been attributed to Ikaria's stress-free lifestyle and Mediterranean diet: daily naps, frequent sex, a little fish and meat, free-flowing wine, mindful exercise like walking and gardening, hyper-loca... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1623362954
    • UPC: 783324833263
    • ASIN: 1623362954
    • ISBN: 1623362954
    • Brand: Rodale Books
    • Manufacturer: Rodale Books

  • Lonely Planet Greek Islands (Travel Guide)

    Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Greek Islands is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Marvel at clifftop sunsets in Santorini; get lost in the twisting, cobbled alleyways of Rhodes’ Old Town; and indulge in Crete’s unique cuisine; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the Greek Islands and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Greek Islands: Colour maps and images throughout Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your perso... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1786574470
    • ASIN: 1786574470
    • ISBN: 1786574470
    • Manufacturer: Lonely Planet

  • Lonely Planet Greece (Travel Guide)

    Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Greece is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stand in the shadow of the Acropolis, compare sunsets and beaches as you hop from island to island, or sample the freshest flavours and most succulent seafood; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Greece and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet’s Greece Travel Guide: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your p... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1786574462
    • ASIN: 1786574462
    • ISBN: 1786574462
    • Manufacturer: Lonely Planet

  • The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

    The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for everyone - the most valuable wisdom of ages past made available for our times, and for all time.

    • ASIN: 1567926118
    • ASIN: 1567926118
    • ISBN: 1567926118
    • Manufacturer: David R Godine

  • How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

    Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than four hundred years later, Montaigne’s honesty and charm still draw ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1590514831
    • UPC: 884766134380
    • ASIN: 1590514831
    • ISBN: 1590514831
    • Brand: Other Press NY
    • Manufacturer: Other Press

  • Habibi (Pantheon Graphic Library)


    • ASIN: 0375424148
    • ASIN: 0375424148
    • ISBN: 9780375424144
    • Brand: Pantheon Books
    • Manufacturer: Pantheon

  • Tapas: A Taste of Spain in America


    • ASIN: 1400053595
    • ASIN: 1400053595
    • ISBN: 9781400053599
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter

  • Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History

    Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history.“Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East. Sicily’s strategic location has tempted Roman emperors, French princes, and Spanish kings. The subsequent struggles to conquer and keep it have played crucial roles in the rise and fall of the world’s most powerful dyna... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0812995171
    • ASIN: 0812995171
    • ISBN: 0812995171
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • The Magus: A Novel

    A man trapped in a millionare's deadly game of political and sexual betrayalFilled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the islands most magnificent estate leads him into a nightmare. As reality and fantasy are deliberately confused by staged deaths, sensual encounters, and terrifying violence, Urfe becomes a desperate man fighting for his sanity and his life. A work rich with symbols, conundrums and labrinthine twis... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0440351626
    • ASIN: 0440351626
    • ISBN: 9780440351627
    • Brand: Dell
    • Manufacturer: Dell

  • The Greek House: The Story of a Painter's Love Affair with the Island of Sifnos

    A richly rewarding narrative about a young painter's love affair with the Greek island of SifnosWhen Christian Brechneff first set foot on the Greek island of Sifnos, it was the spring of 1972 and he was a twenty-one-year-old painter searching for artistic inspiration and a quiet place to work. There, this Swiss child of Russian émigrés, adrift and confused about his sexuality, found something extraordinary. In Sifnos, he found a muse, a subject he was to paint for years, and a sanctuary. In The Greek House, Brechneff tells a funny, touching narrative about his relationship to Sifnos, writin... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0374535264
    • ASIN: 0374535264
    • ISBN: 0374535264
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • History of Philosophy, Vol. 6: From the French Enlightenment to Kant (Modern Philosophy)

    Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A.J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the exiatenceof God and the possibility of metaphysics, knew that seminary students were fed a woefully inadequate diet of theses and proofs, and that their familiarity with most of history's great th... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0385470436
    • ASIN: 0385470436
    • ISBN: 0385470436
    • Manufacturer: Image

  • The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay

    The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world histo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0226561410
    • ASIN: 0226561410
    • ISBN: 0226561410
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

  • Six Records of a Floating Life (Penguin Classics)

    Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yun, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes other incidents of his life, including how his beloved wife obtained a courtesan for him and reflects on his travels through China. Shen Fu's exquisite memoir shows six parallel "layers" of one man's li... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0140444297
    • ASIN: 0140444297
    • ISBN: 0140444297
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • The Golden Ass (Oxford World's Classics)

    Apuleius's Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately returned to human shape by the kindness of the goddess Isis. Simultaneously a blend of romantic adventure, fable, and religious testament, The Golden Ass is one of the truly seminal works of European literature, of intrinsic interest as a novel ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0199540551
    • ASIN: 0199540551
    • ISBN: 0199540551
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • Let's Go Istanbul, Athens & the Greek Islands - eBook

    One straddles two millennia, the other, two continents: Athens and Istanbul number among the world’s oldest and most culturally rich cities. The cradle of democracy and the crucible of empires are inextricably linked to the

    • UPC: 947301367

  • Greeks and Persians Go to War: War Book Best Sellers | Children's Ancient History - eBook

    Why did you have to learn about wars, especially one that happened centuries ago. Well, you can learn from the cause and effect relationships of how the decisions of a few leaders caused the heartaches

    • UPC: 903868081

  • Greeks and Persians Go to War : War Book Best Sellers Children's Ancient History

    Why did you have to learn about wars, especially one that happened centuries ago. Well, you can learn from the cause and effect relationships of how the decisions of a few leaders caused the heartaches

    • UPC: 195931050

  • Sifnos. the Trails Along the Big Blue: Culture Hikes in the Greek Islands

    Sifnos. the Trails Along the Big Blue: Culture Hikes in the Greek

    • UPC: 960037546

  • To Greece and the Distant Islands - eBook

    What makes a successful London business woman leave it all behind to live on a Greek island?Living in a delightful, English country village, she had everything most people dream of.After a supernatural experience while on

    • UPC: 770123017

  • Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 - eBook

    The publication of the pages of a journal in the crude and undigested form in which they were originally composed appears so disrespectful to the public, that it requires some explanation. They were written, "currente

    • UPC: 774202010

  • The Black Hand Gang: They Held the Greek Island of Zante to Ransom - eBook

    .... the awakening of a Bermondsey Boy. Billy is an uneducated quick witted lad from South East London. Roger is his middle class counterpart from a leafy suburb and training to be an architect. Their

    • UPC: 299944900

  • THE BEST OF H. G. Wells (The Time Machine The Island of Dr. Moreau The Invisible Man The War of the Worlds...) ( A to Z Classics) - eBook

    Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)** The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles

    • UPC: 161548461

  • The Ionian Islands (Rough Guides Snapshot Greece) - eBook

    The Rough Guide Snapshot to Greece: The Ionian Islands is the ultimate travel guide to this captivating region of Greece. It leads you through the area with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the

    • UPC: 477091684

  • Travels through History - Nine Greek Islands - eBook

    A travelogue through nine Greek Islands - Rhodes, Symi, Patmos, Samos, Syros, Paros, Tinos, Mykonos, and Delos. The range of history is huge ranging from The Phoenicians to The Ottomans and from The Romans to

    • UPC: 170198499

  • Visit Greece - The DON'Ts of Visiting Greece

    10 tips if you're visiting Greece | Travel Tips

    Ghost Town Santorini! Best time to visit with no tourists!